...or four hour's amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and stram'd and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther." 39 Hume finds himself absolutely and necessarily determined to live, and talk, and act like other people...

...four hour's amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther.113 To advocate a moderation in wisdom, as in Presbyterianism, or wine, or love affairs, is...

...of the 'common affairs of life', he observed, such speculations 'appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther'.79 It is precisely this voice of the quotidian, of 'life', which the Romantics attempt to...

...four hours' amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther.3 With Hume's views about the imagination we are not here direcdy concerned. What he has to...

...four hours amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther' (bk 1 , pt IV, sect. 7; Selby-Bigge, p. 269). 3. "Sisyphus, proletarian of the gods, powerless and...

...four hour's amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther, (pp. 268-69) No less interesting is another passage, a page or so later, in which Hume describes sliding...

...or four hours amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold and strained and ridiculous that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther. Here, then, I find myself absolutely and necessarily determined to live and talk and act like other...

...four hours" amusement. I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any further. (Hume 1888: 269; Seth 1890: 70) For Seth, this famous passage is Hume's acknowledgment that...

...Stanford University Press, 1992), pp. 71 ff. these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any further."1 Here the critique serves to establish an unbridgeable distance between philosophical thought...

...four hour's amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther”. 10 In Goldman's words, “the skeptic... exercises an aberrant pattern of possibility exploration”:...